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Mulo @wornikarghh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

¿Aquí cuál creéis que será la opción más probable de apocalipsis? ¿"Escasez de petróleo Mad Max style", "Guerra de Trincheras 2: la venganza Rusa", o "Skynet meets cobetes reutilizables: el tecnooligarca adicto a las redes sociales tiene una ideaca"?

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

4/6 And finally: Palmyra + Paphos. Different objects, but: The same relational mechanism, different media, audiences and social effects. Towards a relational archaeology of the Roman East!

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/6 I was in Ohrid for LYCHNIDA 2026 - Mediterranean Archaeology Between Empires and Imperialism. Yesterday I presented "Between Incorporation and Autonomy: Towards a Relational Archaeology of the Roman Eastern Mediterranean". I think I finally have something 🧵

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Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The 5,500 year-old Neolithic Pentre Irfan Burial Chamber in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The chamber, constructed ca 3,500 BCE to 3,000 BCE, is constructed of local bluestone which was also used at Stonehenge. It also has a capstone that weighs 16 tons! There was a class of art students at the site today.😊

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A 7,400-year-old female figure with red curls! Throughout human history, red has held a special significance; it was already being used in Neanderthal burials. Red was readily accessible, for instance, in the form of red earth, such as red ochre or red bole. The figurines dates...🧵1/2 📷 me

A small clay figurine depicting a stylized female figure with a large, roughly modeled head and simplified body. The face has prominent brows and eyes, and a protruding nose, while the lower body is fragmented and incomplete. She has curly hair with traces of red pigment. The weathered, dark brown-black surface shows cracks. The object is displayed against a black background.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When we compare the #Oppian #mosaic to this spectacular maritime #fresco from #Stabiae, the conclusion is clear. The Great Mosaic under the Baths of Trajan was a lavish Fourth Style frescoed room translated into #mosaic form, but on a gigantic scale that dwarfed the viewer, certainly on purpose.

FRESCO OF A MARITIME VILLA, C. 50-79 CE. FROM VILLA S. MARCO, STABIAE. NOW IN THE MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI

A circular fresco panel set within a square red border, displaying a highly detailed maritime villa from the Villa S. Marco in Stabiae. Because Stabiae was an enclave of elite luxury estates on the Bay of Naples, this frescoed representation could quite possibly match a real structure that could have been seen directly from the actual villa's terraces. The architectural grammar is identical to the Oppian hill mosaic. A massive, multi-tiered basis villae projects aggressively into the blue-grey water, supporting a sweeping two-level colonnade that evokes the theatrical architecture of the Great Mosaic. Tiny human figures dot the terraces and use fishing poles, serving as scale markers to emphasise the vast size of the estate. Tall trees rise in the background behind the villa. Placed side by side, it becomes obvious that the Trajanic mosaic elevated this popular painted motif by executing it in precious stone and glass.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

To understand what the stolen glass ocean of the Oppian Hill #mosaic originally looked like, we must turn to contemporary #fresco work. This fragmentary landscape from the #HortiLamiani in #Rome supplies the missing coastal atmosphere.

FRESCO FRAGMENT OF A COASTAL LANDSCAPE, C. 37-47 CE. MUSEO NINFEO, ROME

A roughly triangular fresco fragment excavated from the Horti Lamiani. It depicts a lively maritime landscape that provides the exact atmospheric context missing from the Trajanic mosaic. The scene features deep blue water populated by impressionistic, swiftly painted human figures who appear to be wading or working near the shore. In the background, loosely painted white coastal architecture blends into a hazy green and blue shoreline. Just as in the Great Mosaic, this maritime landscape originally formed part of the lower register of a panelled wall. This Julio-Claudian painting demonstrates how these aquatic scenes were anchored in vibrant, populated environments, giving us a vivid sense of the brightly coloured sea and sky that once surrounded the floating mosaic villas before their glass tesserae were salvaged.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These weren't just vacation spots, but visual manifestos of dominion over nature. The #Roman wealthy used hydraulic concrete to build massive artificial platforms directly into the sea. Look closely at the #colonnade to see the tiny human figures used for scale.

MOSAIC OF A MARITIME VILLA WITH JOIST HOLES, 64-98 CE. MUSEO DELLE TERME DI TRAIANO

This maritime villa from the lower register of the Great Mosaic shows a massive Roman coastal estate, damaged at the top by the insertion of square wooden joist holes cut by Trajanic engineers. It features a sprawling basis villae, a stepped concrete substructure built directly into the sea to create an artificial, perfectly level platform. A long, multi-level colonnade dominates the structure. If you look closely between the columns on the right, the mosaicist has included tiny, ghostly white figures standing in the porticoes. These figures, statues or people, serve as scale markers, emphasising the ostentatious size of the private estate. Like the previous panel, all the valuable glass tesserae representing the surrounding water and sky have been systematically despoiled by imperial workmen, leaving the stone architecture stranded in bare plaster.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are starting the week on the Oppian for #MosaicMonday. These late C1 CE wall #mosaics from beneath the #BathsofTrajan show Roman maritime villas. But they look like ghosts, because Trajan's engineers despoiled the glass tesseræ of the water. #AncientBluesky 🏺

MOSAIC OF A MARITIME VILLA, 64-98 CE. MUSEO DELLE TERME DI TRAIANO

This is part of the lower register of the Great Mosaic, one of a row depicting maritime villas, seemingly floating on a rough, blank mortar background. The structure features long colonnaded porticoes extending into the sea on two moles, terminating in tower like pavilions known as diaetae. This architectural pincer enclosed a private harbour, creating a protected mooring that displays the extreme luxury of the C1 rich. The villa appears to float in empty white space because the original background was destroyed. The ocean and sky were likely made of expensive glass paste tesseræ. These were picked out for recycling by Trajan's demolition crews, a state-sanctioned salvage operation also evident in the Polyphemus mosaic of the Domus Aurea. Only the less valuable stone and terracotta pieces forming the architecture were left behind before the hall was walled up to serve as foundations for the Baths of Trajan.

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Antinous the Gay God @antinousgaygod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🪷 #50thAnniversary In the classic BBC TV series #IClaudius, which premiered on 20 Sept 1976, #Tiberius (played by #GeorgeBaker) wears the armour cuirass depicted on the Augustus of Prima Porta marble statue. Photos, info courtesy @ncdrusus38.bsky.social 🪷

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N.C.Drusus @ncdrusus38.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pues vamos a intentar poco a poco la vuelta. Les leo.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The cuckoo in the nest. For #ReliefWednesday we have the magnificent Ara Casali from the late C2 CE, now in the #VaticanMuseums. Its reliefs show the domino effect of myths that led to the founding of #Rome. But the name of the dedicator is a later insertion. #AncientBluesky 🏺

ARA CASALI, C. 170-190 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS

A richly carved marble altar showing the front and right side. On the front, a circular wreath encloses a dedication by Tiberius Claudius Faventinus from c. 230 CE, carved into an erased surface likely resulting from the Severan purges of the 190s CE. Above and below this palimpsest are reliefs of Sol and the lovers Mars and Venus. The altar operates like clockwork to narrate Roman destiny. The visible right side and unseen left side feature scenes of the Trojan War, leading to the inevitable conclusion on the unseen back depicting the discovery of Romulus and Remus. This repurposed monument was a happy purchase for Faventinus, allowing him to benefit from an implied connection to the first imperial house. The Julio-Claudians famously claimed descent from both Mars, via Rhea Silvia, and Venus, the divine ancestress of the Julian line.

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am shamelessly returning to the #CittàDipinta (late C1 CE) in the Museo delle Terme di #Traiano for #FrescoFriday. This upper left detail is the urban centre of the idealised cityscape: walls for strength, an emporium for commerce, a temple for piety, and a theatre for art.

DETAIL OF THE CITTÀ DIPINTA, LATE C1 CE. MUSEO DELLE TERME DI TRAIANO

Rather than serving as a literal topographical map, this section of the fresco functions as an ideological checklist of Romanitas. The painter has condensed the essential elements of civilisation into a single, idealised bird's-eye view. Heavily engineered walls and a naval gate project military and infrastructural strength, while an emporium portico and an adjacent open-air theatre symbolise commerce and the arts. A gabled temple topped with a statue represents civic piety, and the surrounding residential blocks feature rooftop pavilions for the otium of the elite. The physical history of the fresco itself is visible at the bottom left, where the painted plaster curves over the edge of a structural brick arch. Originally a window or doorway in this Neronian- or Flavian-era pavilion (a dating supported by stylistic ties to the nearby Domus Aurea, including the exquisite sfumatura of the Egyptian blue pigment of the water), the void was pragmatically walled up when Trajan's architects entombed the entire structure in darkness to serve as foundational terracing for his imperial baths.

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ObelixOnline2.0 🐗 @obelixonline.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Julia ya está donde debe estar. @yosandraparente.bsky.social @luismalopez.bsky.social @antiguaroma.com Por cierto, he tenido que desplazar al Germánico de Manfredi, lo siento @ncdrusus38.bsky.social

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Seizing the end of International Owl Awareness Day to share this lovely Red-Figure Kalpis, attributed to the 'Group of the Floral Nolans' at Athens, ca. 480-470 BC. #IOAD #AncientStuff 🏺 Truly, a cracking Owl. 😉 Image: J. Paul Getty Collection (86. AE.229). Link - getty.edu/art/collecti...

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Thought we'd post one of ours for a change. Our Floral Mosaic was the first to be discovered on the site, and here it is, being excavated in 1960. #MosaicMonday

Overheat photo of the edge of an archaeological trench. At the bottom of the trench is part of a mosaic depicing a stylized flower. It is being carefully cleaned by two people. You can only see the backs of their heads and their hands.

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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The main apse of the Littlecote Orpheus mosaic, filled with a beautiful shell design. Note the small feline mask on the shell's hinge. The mosaic can be visited in the grounds of Littlecote House, now a Warner Hotel; well signposted when I last visited in 2023. #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Part of a Roman mosaic showing an apse with a radial design in the form of a shell, with the segments coloured in dark grey, red and white/cream. The shell's hinge is at the top of photograph and takes the form of a small cat-like mask. There is a border of stepped triangles and a wider plain outer border. In the immediate foreground are the remains of the wall around the apse.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The Hercules Mosaic, possibly from Roman North Africa. The mosaic dates to the second century AD, and is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #Roman #BritishMuseum

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

You'd be forgiven if you thought that this figure on the bottom of a scarab ring was Medusa. In fact, it's Hera - Hera Lakinia, recognizable due to her image on the coins of the ancient Greek city of Kroton (Crotone) on the lonian coast of Italy. 🏺 1/ Greek, 4th c. BCE #GettyVilla 📸 me

The head of a goddess decorates the flat surface of this hollow gold scarab set in a silver swivel ring. Carved in relief rather than engraved as on a stone scarab, the goddess wears a stephane or crown decorated with three palmettes and a necklace with acorn-shaped pendants. Her locks of wavy hair radiate out from her face and she has a fierce expression. She represents Hera Lakinia, a local version of Hera, whose sanctuary was near the city of Kroton in South Italy. Coins of Kroton from the 300s BCE show similar images of Hera Lakinia, supporting this identification.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

#MosaicMonday 🏺 Party time.... Triumphant young winged Dionysus (or Cupid?) arrives in celebratory mode w wreath of vine leaves, cup of wine, riding a lion-headed tiger. #Roman emblema from a triclinium in House of the Faun, #Pompeii. Bordered with tragic masks and garlands. In MANN, Naples

A scene of a young winged god - probably Dionysus - on the back of a tiger with a lion's head. Gripping the harness of the beast, he wears a garland of fruit and leaves on his head and holds a large basin of wine.
This central image is bounded by an elaborate series of garlands and dramatic masks, all entertwined.
Outside of this is a wavy border in dark red and off-white.

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

#MosaicMonday; from a residence in the north part of the Western Archaeological Zone of Kos, the only (mostly) remaining of three emblemata from a large floor mosaic. The scene depicts the Judgement of Paris. Dated to the 2nd century CE. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

The goddess of discord, Eris, having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, creates chaos by bringing a golden apple inscribed with a notation that it belongs to the fairest one. Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena all believe that they are the fairest and claim ownership. After Zeus wisely declined to judge the fairest of the three and rightful owner of the apple, the Trojan prince Paris is chosen to make the determination. Paris sits beneath a tree with an eagle representing Zeus on the left of the scene. Hermes stands next to him, having brought the goddesses to Paris for his arbitration. Aphrodite stands first, but is mostly missing due to the damage to the mosaic. Hera is seated at the center of the goddesses and Athena stands at the right side.

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Libisosa @libisosa.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Libisosa y las Dressel 1. Tarde de 🔬🔍

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Apparently, it's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay! Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC. 📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

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Miss Ailec @celiapm.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Kimekoni Ningyo Doll © National Costume Dolls

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Miss Ailec @celiapm.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Estos últimos días hemos visto multitud de imágenes de la Plaza y de la Basílica de San Pedro del Vaticano y casi seguro que se os ha pasado por alto fijaros en algo tan “simple” como los pilares.

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N.C.Drusus @ncdrusus38.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Pues dejemos la imagen familiar (Julio- Claudia) para el #PisuergasCocodrileDay ¡Larga y próspera vida!

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CaracolinHeaven @caracolinheaven.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Casi no llego al #PisuergasCrocodileDay por cosas, peeeeero no me pierdo esta cita aunque tuviera que venir con la cabeza bajo el brazo. Este año encontré en una caja de zapatos una vieja foto que escondía un oscuro secreto: la verdadera razón de que el cocodrilo tuviera que salir por patas...😱

El cocodrilo del Pisuerga levantando la "tapa" de la torre de la iglesia de Santa Maria de la Antigua en Valladolid en busca de la Santa galletita. Collage hecho con un dibujo del cocodrilo con camiseta de rayas rojas y una vieja postal.

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CaracolinHeaven @caracolinheaven.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Un año más, tengo que agradecerle a @cuadernodeluis.bsky.social haber sacado los rotus, el cuter, las pinturas y a la gamberra que hay en mi. Ahora tengo que recoger todo, Luis, te parecerá bonito. 😉😘

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Antonio Artinfantes @artinfantes.eurosky.social · 10/04/2025

Espinario, escultura helenística datada en el siglo I a.n.e. Vaciado en yeso anónimo de 1760-1799, procedente de la Gipsoteca de la Universidad de Sevilla.

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Rodrigo Villalobos García (blog Gafas de Childe) @gafaschilde.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Hay quien llama a este modelo social y político "sociedad cooperativa de la abundancia" pero ¿es eso comunismo originario? La detallada descripción de este y de más casos arqueológicos podéis leerlo en hoces de piedra, martillos de bronce: aticodeloslibros.com/inicio/359-h...

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Hoces de piedra, martillos de bronce

Rodrigo Villalobos Colección: Ático Historia Formato: 15 x 23 cm, tapa dura con sobrecubierta Páginas: 224 Fecha de publicación: 03/03/2025 ISBN: 978-84-19703-93-4 GASTOS DE ENVÍO GRATIS A PARTIR DE 3...

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Rodrigo Villalobos García (blog Gafas de Childe) @gafaschilde.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Valencina de la Concepción es el mayor yacimiento del Calcolítico de la Península Ibérica (3300-2200 a. C.) y la variedad de estructuras y materiales que ha ofrecido ha generado un debate muy intenso sobre el modelo social y político de sus habitantes.

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Rodrigo Villalobos García (blog Gafas de Childe) @gafaschilde.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Me vais a perdonar la ordinariez pero voy a aprovechar esta noticia sobre la espectacular Valencina para publicitar un poco "Hoces de piedra, martillos de bronce" ¿Qué quiere decir "sociedades cooperativas de la abundancia"? ¿Es comunismo originario? www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/El-...

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El yacimiento prehistórico de Valencina fue una comunidad de larga duración

El estudio de más de 600 herramientas de la zona norte del asentamiento, llevado a cabo por investigadores de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, indica que fue un poblado complejo y de larga duraci...

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

#OnThisDay - 8 April - in AD 217, according to Cassius Dio (79.5), the Emperor Caracalla was assassinated by the roadside in Parthia, en route from Edessa to Carrhae, aged 29 years & 4 days. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC IV Caracalla 257B; Münzkabinett Berlin. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Obverse of a Roman aureus: Bust of Caracalla, laureate, draped, cuirassed, left.

Reverse of a Roman aureus: Isis, draped, standing right, holding sistrum in right hand and presenting two corn-ears to Caracalla, in military attire, standing left, holding spear in right hand and trampling on crocodile.

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Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

1. A scowl of psychological tension that forever changed the art of portraiture. The head of the emperor Caracalla from a statue reworked as a bust. Marble, 212 AD. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Inv. 6603. From the Baths of Caracalla in Rome.

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ObelixOnline2.0 🐗 @obelixonline.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#PlaymobilAstérix: Obélix con Menhir El mítico Obélix con su no menos mítico Menhir holacaracola.es/playmobil-as...

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Luis Pastor @luispastorart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Dos acuarelas grandes que hice para mi casa y que me gustan bastante.

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ObelixOnline2.0 🐗 @obelixonline.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

¿Sabes que si fijas (pin at home) esta lista, tendrás todos mis post y reposts más accesible y no me tendrás que buscar si el algoritmo no te muestra mis cosas? bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Emilio Tejera @emiliotejera.eurosky.social · 10/04/2025

Visto el debate del día hoy en Bluesky, yo creo que es al contrario, que en el cine de hoy el nombre de los directores cuenta más que nunca: por eso, entre otras cosas, se ficha a directores de películas premiadas (ej., Nomadland) y se les ofrece a hacer taquillazos (en este caso, Eternals).

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Luis Pastor @luispastorart.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Pasquino NUEVO. Calentito calentito que va y se quema! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Cambio climático, desastres, museos y pasta, mucha pasta 🍝 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 Donde? Aquí: youtu.be/r9oDxnr4nIk?...

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El Guetty con el agua y el fuego al cuello

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

#EpigraphyTuesday takes us out of #Rome to #OstiaAntica, where three pieces of broken marble are all that remain of the #tombstone of #StMonica, mother of the Church Father St #Augustine and, I can't help but feel, a relentless nag. #AncientBluesky 🏺

FRAGMENTARY EPITAPH OF ST MONICA, 408 CE. S. AUREA, OSTIA ANTICA

HIC POSUIT CINERES GENETRIX CASTISSIMA PROLIS AUGUSTINE TUI ALTERA LUX MERITI CUI SERVANS COELESTIA IURA SACERDOS. COMMISSOS POPULOS MORIBUS INSTITUIS GLORIA VOS MAIOR GESTORUM LAUDE CORONAT VIRTUTUM MATER FELICIOR SUBOLIS

In the tiny parish church of Ostia Antica, S. Aurea, is this fragmentary inscription written in honour of the mother of the Church Father St Augustine, St Monica. She died of malaria in Ostia in 387 or 388, at the age of 56, waiting with Augustine to return to their home town of Carthage. Monica was a lifelong Christian, but she married into an aristocratic non-Christian family and prayed constantly for their conversion, which must have been annoying to live with. Eventually Augustine went to Rome and then to Milan, where he converted and was baptised by St Ambrose: she followed him doggedly until she died. His friend, the noble Anicius Auchenius Bassus, consul in 408, wrote this epitaph for her. The fragments were found only in 1945, but the inscription had been recorded in antiquity. "Here the most virtuous mother of a young man set her ashes, a second light to your merits, Augustine. As a priest, serving the heavenly laws of peace, you taught the people entrusted to you with your character. A glory greater than the praise of your accomplishments crowns you both – Mother of the Virtues, more fortunate because of her offspring."

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

#ReliefWednesday takes to #Paris, where two marble panels from #Pydna in northern #Greece, part of ancient #Macedonia, show a funerary bed with a very good boy carefully guarding his master's tomb. #AncientBluesky 🏺

MACEDONIAN FUNERARY BED, 325-290 BCE. MUSÉE DU LOUVRE

This relief in Pentelic marble still retains some of its original red paint. Aristocratic Macedonian tombs had much in common with Etruscan tumuli, with an entrance corridor leading into a series of rooms with the tomb chamber at the end of the sequence. The relief we see here shows a bed from the side. Its upright posts are carved to resemble wooden bedposts and would once have been brightly painted. The deceased is not shown on the bed or anywhere else: he has already gone to the Underworld. But his loyal Molossian hound, beautifully carved, is shown lying under the bed, alert and on guard.

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

how to draw a medieval cat in two easy steps

a simple tutorial on how to draw a medieval cat. step 1 shows a basic “normal cat" with no details. step 2 shows the same cat but with a "human face" added, featuring a straight mouth and serious eyes. the final drawing combines both elements — a cat with a human-like face, surrounded by sparkles ✨

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Néstor F. Marqués - Antigua Roma al Día @antiguaroma.com · 31/01/2025

Hoy en el año 36 a. C. nació en Atenas Antonia la Menor, hija de Marco Antonio y Octavia, la hermana de Augusto.

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